ISIS: Our Soda Can Bomb Took Down Russian Jet

ISIS claims that the bomb which took down a Russian airliner was hidden in a can of Schwepps pineapple soda. ABC News reports:

The image, included in the latest issues of an ISIS magazine, shows a soda can and what explosives experts told ABC News are a blasting cap and an electric initiator. The ISIS magazine said the image showed “the IED [improvised explosive device] used to bring down the Russian airliner.” The magazine’s publication comes just a day after top Russian officials announced that they had concluded a bomb had taken down the plane. An ISIS affiliate in Egypt claimed responsibility for the tragedy just hours after the plane crashed. Kevin Barry, an explosives expert and former member of the NYPD bomb squad, told ABC News that the bomb could very well have been detonated by a timer. A former Army special operations soldier trained in the use of explosives said he suspected the bomb was set off manually by someone physically on the plane, judging from the photo. The ISIS magazine only said it was “smuggled” aboard.